How to start a theatre? Pose as a Property Developer
Good Morning,Theatre director Jay Miller started the Yard, a Hackney Wick fringe theatre (and London’s coolest venue), by posing as a property developer and wearing a charity-shop tie and offering a landlord free night-watchman service in place of paid security. The three-month pop-up ran 14 years, sent Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum Dreams to the National Theatre, and has just reopened after a £7 million rebuild (The Nerve).Sixty foreign architecture firms, not one of them Albani